What's this Moffit Cancer stuff?

Ok... talked to Donna and Mitch today.

The Moffit Cancer Center in Florida is working on stuff that helps the immune system aid in the fight against cancer.

They have a treatment idea where they take a patient's blood throughout a round of chemo, watch how things change over the month, and then create a custom formula that will allow the body's immune system help the chemo to be more effective.

Moffit did a test group using this idea, and they had about a 50% increase in the effectiveness of the chemo.

They are doing a second round of testing, and they are accepting 100 individuals. 66 will get the custom syrum and 34 will get a placebo.

Donna is a good candidiate for the second round. They have given her initial approval for the program. She will be flying out to Florida for a meeting December 1 to make sure everything looks good and to actually be admitted to the program if they accept her.

Either way, she will finish this 4-6 month batch of chemo treatments. If she is accepted into the program, she will then spend a month in Florida. They will give her a round of chemo, and then check out her blood almost every day for the entire month. They will make up the custom syrum (or a not so custom placebo) give it to Donna before the next batch of chemo. That syrum will be used over an entire batch of 4-6 treatments.

It also appears that this kind of a treatment works kinda like an immunization... If Donna's cancer goes into remmission, and then comes back, the improvements in her immune system should still be in place to make fighting the cancer a second time more effective.